list/tuple/dict question

[Fredrik Lundh]

bruce wrote:

> so, this still doesn't get me an array called 'cat', or 'dog'

sure does, in the stuff dictionary:

 >>> stuff = {}
 >>> foo = []
 >>> foo.append('cat')
 >>> foo.append('dog')
 >>> stuff[foo[1]] = []
 >>> stuff
{'dog': []}

(note that Python indexing starts with zero, so foo[1] refers to the dog 
entry).

> or do i somehow use stuff to add/extract the vals...???

    >>> stuff["dog"]
    []
    >>> stuff["dog"].append(1)
    >>> stuff["dog"]
    [1]

etc.

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